• thesystemisdown@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s easy to avoid buying things from Amazon. It’s hard to avoid AWS. It would be insane to try to suss out what provider everyone that I buy stuff from uses, and their third party relationships. Regulation is better.

    • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.todayOP
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      1 year ago

      Yep, try browsing with ublock origin blocking all Amazon domains. Lots of things break because AWS is so large.

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      1 year ago

      In the old days people used to have their own servers…

      And you can still buy them…

      And the cloud really isn’t cheaper…

      But whatever, it’s ubiquitous today. Maybe someday people will wake the F up.

    • EnderMB@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The best way to do this is to correlate downtime with main providers. If a cloud provider goes down when AWS has outages on related services, it’s probably using an AWS service.